Absurd Quote by Jon Ronson

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

— Benjamin Zander

So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous.

— Justina Machado

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

— Agnes Repplier

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

— Thomas Nagel

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

— Paul Madonna

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the…

— William Kentridge

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

— Natasha Lyonne

Real people are what fascinates me, whether it's from an acting point of view or a directing point of view.

— Paul Blackthorne

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

— Ambrose Bierce